In the news: in Benin, the political trial too many
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Joël Aïvo is professor of constitutional law in Benin.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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On the front page of the African press this Friday morning, Benin, where the opponent Joël Aïvo was yesterday before CRIET, that is to say the Court for the repression of economic offenses and terrorism, for the opening of its trial.
This academic, who was a candidate for the Front for the Restoration of Democracy during the presidential election last April, must respond to criminal charges of “
money laundering and attacking state security
”.
Constitutionalist, Joël Aïvo had since been in pre-trial detention.
During yesterday's hearing, the special prosecutor asked the judge "
to declare himself incompetent and to entrust the case to an examining magistrate,
reports
La Nouvelle Tribune
(...)
The judge finally put the case under advisement for the August 5, 2021
”.
But beyond the procedure, Joël Aïvo before the CRIET, "
it is one political trial too many in Benin
", deplores, in Burkina Faso,
L'Observateur Paalga
,
a trial illustrating "
the will of President Patrice Talon to crush its protesters by the judicial machine. In this policy of muzzling its opponents, CRIET is a sadly special tribunal, a judicial club that crushes its most prominent opponents
”, formulates this Ouagalan daily.
"
It
is not good to be an opponent of Benin
," his colleague
Le Pays
bids
.
With Justice in order, Patrice Talon
(...)
is
doing a disservice
to democracy in Benin
". And this Burkinabè newspaper fears that the businessman who has become president, will end up"
bringing back his country, once cited as a showcase of democracy, among the dunces of democracy in Africa
”.
Tragic accident in Ivory Coast
In Côte d'Ivoire, a terrible road accident left at least 25 dead and 31 injured. "
The toll is growing
", deplores Soir Info, on a photo of the traffic accident, Wednesday, shortly after 19h, involving a transport bus from a Korhogo company and a "Massa" minibus, at Pk 108 , at the Tiassalé crossroads, on the North highway, in the Yamoussoukro-Abidjan direction, specifies this independent Ivorian daily.
In Côte d'Ivoire too, Laurent Gbagbo appointed his chief of staff yesterday.
This is the diplomat Emmanuel Ackah.
Faithful to Laurent Gbagbo's faithful, Emmanuel Auguste Ackah is one of the people who “
meticulously
” prepared the meeting on July 29, 2019, in Brussels between Presidents Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bédié, recalls the daily
Le Temps
.
This "
discreet
" ex-ambassador of Côte d'Ivoire in Accra, Ghana, whose face appears on the front page of this pro-Gbagbo newspaper, was also the one who "
played the facilitator, so that Affi N'Guessan could meet President Laurent Gbagbo, in Brussels
”(in March 2019).
Meeting that had "
flipped
", recalls
Le Temps
.
Precisely, by appointing Emmanuel Ackah, Laurent Gbagbo "
sends a clear message to Affi N'Guessan
", launches in Une
Soir Info
, because he "
thus proceeds to his first appointment as" president of the Fpi "
", the letter of appointment of the chief of staff being signed by the "
Secretary General
" Assoa Adou, remarks this independent daily, according to which "
the war is open to the Ivorian Popular Front between the former president Laurent Gbagbo and Pascal Affi N'Guessan for the control of the party
".
Of Laurent Gbagbo, Emmanuel Ackah is in any case "
remained very close
", completes the daily newspaper
Today
, also close to the former Ivorian president returned from exile a month ago.
Ex-Minister Eric Kahé has also just returned from a ten-year exile.
President of the Ivorian Alliance for the Republic and Democracy, Eric Kahé, back in his motherland, mentioned in particular "the sacrifice of 10 years of exile with sometimes destroyed families", far from his country "
which we overnight becomes the pariah,
”notes
Le Temps
.
Revelations about the Rwandan volunteer who burned down Nantes cathedral
These revelations finally on the arsonist at Nantes cathedral last year in France. After a childhood marked by the genocide in Rwanda, this 40-year-old refugee was refused asylum and assaulted in front of the sacristy.
His name is Emmanuel Abayisenga. On July 18, 2020, he set fire to the cathedral in Nantes, western France. From an investigation carried out by the French daily
La Croix
appears the portrait of an arsonist from a Hutu family, whose father, the newspaper states, was "
summarily executed
" in 1996 before being sentenced in as a "
genocidal
" by the Rwandan justice (the future arsonist was then 15 years old). Returned to the police force in Rwanda, he later said that he had witnessed "
settling of
scores
of unheard-of violence targeting Hutus in particular
", reports La Croix. And indeed, on December 31, 2018, he will be "the
victim of a violent assault in front of the sacristy.
”Of Nantes cathedral, an attack that could have acted“
like a slow match bomb
”, assumes the French Catholic daily.
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